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Tax the Rich, Save the Economy
“Losers in rigged games can become very angry,” he says in the documentary Inequality for All, which will be released in the U.S. on Sept. 27. “We’re seeing an entire society that is starting to pull apart… Unlike the 1930s, we haven’t had the kind of reforms we need to change direction.” In fact, he says, since 2007 economic gains have gone to the rich and inequality has increased.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Canada Says No To UN Call For Review Of Violence On Aboriginal Women
Canada was responding Thursday to the UN Human Rights Council, which is conducting its Universal Periodic Review of Canada’s rights record, on a wide range of issues from poverty, immigration and the criminal justice system… Canada faced similar calls to better address the concerns of its aboriginal population in 2009, when it faced its last review by the UN body… Conservative cabinet ministers have blasted the UN’s right-to-food envoy Olivier De Schutter for saying too many Canadian citizens are going hungry.
Tags: globalization, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ontario is right to finally admit it failed developmentally delayed kids
… reaching the agreement — with the promise of an apology and $35 million in financial compensation — was a three-year battle, fought every step of the way by provincial government lawyers. Shamefully, some former residents, now well past their middle years, died before seeing a resolution… By settling the Huronia lawsuit the government has, however belatedly, acknowledged its failures.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Who are Canada’s top 1%?
… the top one per cent tend to be middle-aged men who are married and live in a big city — much like it was 50 years ago. They also tend to have a university degree and work in the areas you’d expect — medicine, dentistry, law, engineering, business and finance, and management… some of the one percenters are outliers — they don’t share the usual characteristics that tend to define membership in this group. Some don’t even work at all. But they are a definite minority.
Tags: standard of living
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Income inequality threatens our society
… social discontent, labour strife, the increasingly nasty and repressive politics of class warfare and its fallout – all indicators that characterized similar periods of income disparities in the past… Reich argues for… unemployment benefits to tide individuals over during the job loss that accompanies economic downturns… a reemployment system that includes wage insurance coupled to aggressive retraining to increase productivity and to help address industry’s shortages in particular sectors.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Even a bad survey cannot blind us to income inequality
… the NHS does give us a (perhaps somewhat murky and suspect) snapshot of various dimensions of income and income inequality in 2010, a year of continued high unemployment and only modest recovery from the Great Recession… Looking at all Canadians aged 15 and over, the NHS reports that average income was $38,650. However, the incomes of the bottom 90 per cent of Canadians averaged just $27,954, compared with an average of $134,916 for the top 10 per cent.
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Income only one variable [in poor health outcomes]
Yes, adequate levels of income support are required for those unable to work. But the surer long-run solution is investments in programs that give children better chances at succeeding in school, in obtaining employment, in avoiding addictions, etc. / … government expenditures must increase in areas such as education, income assistance, child care, poverty reduction and social support services… financed through increasing the progressiveness of the… tax system
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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‘Income inequality is still very much an issue’
Better times for the economy from 2000 to 2008 did not reverse the dismal trend of the previous two decades. A temporarily rising tide did not make incomes more equal. / More recently, the distribution of income was the greatest it has been since the Great Depression… with the bottom 10% averaging $10,000 and the top 10% averaging $100,000 / … common sense tells us that that [the rise in the cost of living] negates income increases for most people.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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The myth of income inequality: Since the bleak 90s, things have actually gotten better
A society in which the fortunes of the broad majority have ceased to improve will perforce be an unhappy one; a society with swelling numbers of the poor damn well ought to be. If income is increasingly concentrated among a permanent elite, it raises fundamental, and troubling, questions: whether social mobility is real, whether merit is rewarded, whether democratic government is even possible. A divided society is a recipe for social strife…
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Charity rules tightened
The CRA’s recent released guidance provides the agency’s recommended approach to drafting purposes – also known as “objects” – for organizations intending to become registered charities and for charities that are considering altering their existing purpose… Relieving poverty, advancing education, advancing religion and furthering health are the four broad categories of charitable purposes… a charity must define clearly both the scope of the activities… and the segment of the public that is the intended beneficiary of the charity’s activities.
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